For a blogger, there is nothing that says welcome back after being on the road like finding a really good story about a major misogynist from your hometown on a seriously obscure website rather than in the morning paper where it belongs. But kudos to Ethics Daily which reports that Bruce […]
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And yet another fine reason why the military is bad for women:
“While women make up 14 percent of Army personnel, 46 percent of those discharged under the policy last year were women. And while 20 percent of Air Force personnel are women, 49 percent of its discharges under the policy last year were women.
By comparison […]
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Little doubt that one of the all-time things that screams vulnerability is lying flat on your back in a hospital bed with your feet in stirrups, likely with all manner of monitoring equipment and an IV attached, having childbirth contractions every few seconds. And that is exactly where the American Medical Association wants women […]
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From IRIN:
“Most women arriving in parts of the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among a new wave of some 27,000 deportees from Angola, have been sexually abused, a local health official said.
“There are many injured people and 80 percent of the women [who arrived] had been raped,” Pierre Didi […]
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From IRIN:
“According to the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) State of the World’s Children Report 2008, Bangladesh has the worst maternal mortality rate (MMR) in South Asia at 570 per 100,000 live births.
In comparison, the rates in neighbouring India and Pakistan are 450 and 320 respectively, the report states.
According to Bangladesh’s 2007 Demographic and Health Survey, […]
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Just in case you thought harassing female candidates (not to mention the wives of candidates) was just an American problem, funny thing–check out this story from Sierra Leone:
“There have been several reported cases of serious harassment from male opponents by female candidates contesting the forthcoming local council elections.
However, it is pertinent to re-echo that Sierra […]
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Congragulations to Joan Wile for being this week’s Buzzflash Wings of Justice Recipient.
“Joan Wile could be enjoying her senior years by relaxing in Florida or Arizona; but instead in 2003, she founded […]
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While attending the recent National Media Reform Conference in Minneapolis, I attended a panel called, Promoting Global Human Rights Through Progressive Communications Policies. One of the participants on the panel was Rosemary Okello-Orlale, the Executive Director of the African Woman and Child Feature Service. She made some excellent points about women’s human rights in […]
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Would that the title of this post was the title of some perverse movie offering, but it isn’t…and do please remember, Pakistan is our ally.
IRIN reports on child marriage in Pakistan:
“Sometimes child marriages are not the result of an agreement between families, but the result of a ruling by a tribal council, most […]
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Michelle Obama Watch has put up a Media Attack page that tracks media attacks on the Presidential candidate’s wife. Truly it is sickening that there even needs to be such a site, but you might as well bookmark it now, you’re going to be referencing it a whole lot between now and November.
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